Friday, December 18

Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while may remember my annual stresses over birthday cakes. Last year I begged you all for birthday cake tips, and then I chickened out and made a layer cake that was cute and tasty, but not very adventurous. Our little Anna likes Spiderman a lot. It’s pretty cute. I decided that I would make her a Spiderman cake this year. Thankfully his head is a simple oval, so this was a good cake for me to get my feet wet with.

Do you mind if I brag a bit? I love her cake! I’m so happy with how it came out. YEA!!!!!

I applied a crumb coat of frosting first before doing a top layer of frosting.

I used tons of food coloring to get the color of icing I wanted.

I practiced decorating with frosting before attacking the cake itself. (This was big for me, I hate “wasting” time practicing!)

All of this meant it took longer to make, but it was well worth the effort. Thank you for indulging me and letting me show off the cake! Maybe next year I’ll try a more interesting shape. Or maybe I should just stick with things at are oval-shaped.

Awesome job! I have been totally getting into making cakes lately. This year my son wanted a “Special Forces” birthday. So, I made him a camo cake, and it turned out so flipp’n awesome. I wish I had uploaded the pictures onto a website somewhere, it would be fun to share. Seriously, I was all giddy about it.

Might I ask what kind of food coloring you used? I typically use gels, but after watching a “Good Eats” episode a while back, he got me thinking about powdered food coloring.

I just have to add re: the cake strips – So THAT’S how they are used. Hahah! I feel like such a twit. I’ve often looked at “cake strips” at the local craft/baking supply store I frequent. I was always wondering HOW one would use them – did they get put under the cake, in between, inside the pan, outside the pan… AHHA! Brilliant! I’m going to use that trick this Christmas when I make our annual Christmas Gift Cake!

nevadamtnbear…I used gels b/c it’s what I had. I had to use a LOT to get the frosting red… and even had to add in a little brown and orange to tone down the pink-iness.

I’m totally going to check out the powdered, though…and I have a good friend who is a pastry chef. I’ll ask her on monday when we go to her house to decorate gingerbread men, see what she likes better.

That looks great. I’m about to try my hand at first shaped cake. I’m making a ladybug cake this afternoon for my daughter’s third birthday tomorrow. I was planning on making a practice one earlier this week but never had the time.

That looks great. I love kids birthday cakes, this year for my daughters first birthday I made a Babushka doll shaped cake and it turned out great (it was my own design). My elderest daugter got two cakes one for her party and one for Kindy (her actual birthday). Both these cakes were picked from books; the kindy cake was a dinosaur and her party cake was a bunch of flowers (made from cupcakes). They all turned out really well and I do enjoy it but wouldn’t be able to do it for a living. I like to do a special cake made with love for my kids Happy birthday to your daughter I am sure she will enjo her cake made with love.

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